Serie A: Lazio 14 points up, Napoli 7 points down: a comparison with last season.
Gattuso enjoys an undefeated top spot, while Napoli slips to 10th place. Alvini's Frosinone surprises, dreaming of European football. The bottom of the table is a mirror image of last season.
Eleven matchdays are enough to describe a Serie A that appears to have completely changed face. The 2026/27 season has begun with goals and spectacle . Last season, the boring 0-0 draw, is already a distant memory. But let's shift our gaze from the pitch to the standings . The race for the Scudetto and the places that guarantee a place in Europe has transformed into a fierce and high-intensity competition: to stay on the Champions League train , managing is no longer enough, you have to run.
The numbers reflect this acceleration : the top five (Lazio, Inter, Roma, Milan, and Como) have collected a total of 131 points , compared to 113 earned by the same positions after eleven matchdays last season. This increase of 18 points brings the average for the Top 5 from 22.6 to 26.2 points per team. This significant acceleration speaks to a tournament in which the top teams are making their selections from the outset.
Eleven matchdays are enough to describe a Serie A that appears to have completely changed face. The 2026/27 season has begun with goals and spectacle . Last season, the boring 0-0 draw, is already a distant memory. But let's shift our gaze from the pitch to the standings . The race for the Scudetto and the places that guarantee a place in Europe has transformed into a fierce and high-intensity competition: to stay on the Champions League train , managing is no longer enough, you have to run.
The numbers reflect this acceleration : the top five (Lazio, Inter, Roma, Milan, and Como) have collected a total of 131 points , compared to 113 earned by the same positions after eleven matchdays last season. This increase of 18 points brings the average for the Top 5 from 22.6 to 26.2 points per team. This significant acceleration speaks to a tournament in which the top teams are making their selections from the outset.
Lazio's flight: top of the table and still undefeated
Lazio deservedly takes the headlines for this first half of the season . The Biancocelesti enter the international break as sole leaders , with 29 points from eleven matches and still undefeated . Under Gennaro Gattuso , they have achieved the club's best start to Serie A history, surpassing the previous record of 28 points set in 2017/2018. The final match before the break, a 1-1 draw away to Napoli at the Maradona, failed to dent the momentum of a near-perfect squad. A small setback, mostly in terms of results, does not erase what has been achieved so far. The Biancocelesti continue to prove themselves solid, concrete, and capable of maintaining a top-level performance even in the most difficult away matches.
The credit goes to a team that seems to have perfectly assimilated their coach's combative philosophy. 'Ringhio's' stamp is evident in their attitude, intensity, and ability to stay in the game. Now, the break represents an important time to recharge and prepare for the next leg of the season. Meanwhile, the standings give us cause for dreaming : the Biancocelesti are ahead of everyone else and are proving they deserve to be top of the table. The question is no longer just how long this moment can last, but how far can a team that, at least for now, doesn't understand the meaning of defeat, push itself forward.
Naples, from the podium to tenth place in the centenary year
For Massimiliano Allegri 's team, the comparison with last season is merciless and highlights a decline that's hard to ignore . After eleven matchdays of the 2025/26 championship, the Azzurri were in third place with 22 points. Today, at the same point in the season, their tally has dropped to 15 points , with a standing that sees them slip to 10th . Seven points fewer and seven places lower: a performance almost halved compared to twelve months ago.
But there's another factor that makes the Neapolitans' moment even more significant. Napoli is currently closer to the relegation zone (8 points away) than the Champions League spot (9 points). Naturally, the prospect of them actually being involved in the relegation battle remains extremely remote. However, the statistical fact cannot be ignored: the Azzurri have not demonstrated the pace needed to keep pace with the acceleration of their direct rivals.
The championship's fairytale: Alvini's Frosinone
Among the best stories of this start to the season is undoubtedly that of Massimiliano Alvini 's Frosinone . The Ciociari are exceeding expectations and find themselves in sixth place with 20 points . This finish would guarantee qualification for next season's Conference League . Frosinone isn't just a surprise result: it's a team demonstrating a clear identity, organization, and personality. Qualities that have allowed the Gialloazzurri to face even opponents who, on paper, are better equipped without sacrificing their own vision of football.
The highlight of this first half of the season was the 2-0 win over Cesc Fabregas' Como at the Stirpe. Naturally, talking about Europe in November requires caution: Alvini will also have to contend with the absence of his striker Antonio Raimondo (8 goals in 10 games), a significant loss that will force Frosinone to grit their teeth and find new attacking solutions. The road remains uphill, but after starting with the sole objective of staying up, Frosinone has now shown they can aspire to something more.
A relegation zone... A carbon copy
While the league has changed pace at the top of the table, time seems to have stood still in the relegation zone . From fifteenth to twentieth place , the points average is exactly the same as that recorded after eleven matchdays last season . A statistical balance that sees the bottom three positions with exactly the same points distribution.
- Season 2025/2026 (11th matchday) : Genoa (7), Hellas Verona (6), Fiorentina (5).
- Season 2026/2027 (Current) : Monza (7), Venezia (6), Udinese (5).
In short, the protagonists have changed, but not the level of difficulty: for the teams involved in the fight for survival, it will be a point-by-point challenge.
Serie A is thus a two-speed affair . On one side, an increasingly competitive top-flight, with a Top 5 capable of accumulating 18 more points than last season and Lazio as a key player. On the other, a relegation zone that maintains the same balance as twelve months ago. In between, the stories of a Napoli called upon to react and a Frosinone dreaming of European qualification.
The international break comes at a significant time: some teams can enjoy their top spot, others must question their poor start, and others, against all odds, find themselves in the upper echelons of the table. Eleven matchdays have left no trophies undecided, and no final verdicts have been issued, but one thing is already clear: this Serie A has changed pace, and not everyone has been able to keep up.
| Squad | 25/26 | 26/27 | Difference |
| Lazio | 15 | 29 | +14 |
| Inter | 24 | 28 | +4 |
| Rome | 24 | 27 | +3 |
| Milan | 22 | 24 | +2 |
| Como | 18 | 23 | +5 |
| Juventus | 19 | 18 | -1 |
| Bologna | 21 | 17 | -4 |
| Cagliari | 10 | 16 | +6 |
| Naples | 22 | 15 | -7 |
| Turin | 14 | 14 | = |
| Atalanta | 13 | 14 | +1 |
| Genoa | 7 | 13 | +6 |
| Lecce | 10 | 10 | = |
| Fiorentina | 5 | 9 | +4 |
| Parma | 8 | 8 | = |
| Sassuolo | 16 | 8 | -8 |
| Udinese | 15 | 5 | -10 |